Thursday 12 March 2020

workshop issue 7


Key publication from the radical Workshop Photography School founded by Daido in 1974, and co founded by Tomatsu, Araki, Hosoe, Fukase and Noriaki Yokosuka. The school was very small and each photographer taught for one day a week with emphasis on one to one tutoring. Alumni included Keizo Kitajima, Seiji Kurata, Osamu Takizawa and others. Each issue of Workshop was edited by a founder member, with sections by each in every issue, along with work created with and by the students. Overally it's a brilliant document of the development of post provoke photography. This issue is bondage heavy, Meiji bondage, pregnant bondage, and nudes, Fukuo Ikeda. I'm assuming Araki was in charge of this issue.